transverse arytenoid muscle

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Introduction

A band of muscle fibers passing posteriorly between the 2 arytenoid cartilages.

Action

narrows intercartilagenous part of the rima glottidis

Innervation

recurrent laryngeal nerve

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995